DRAGON
A timely and powerful Russian classic translated and reimagined for the audiences in modern Britain with movement and dance pieces.
A timely and powerful Russian classic translated and reimagined for the audiences in modern Britain with movement and dance pieces.
A timely and powerful Russian classic translated and reimagined for the audiences in modern Britain with movement and dance pieces.
Lancelot, a travelling hero, comes across a small town, tyrannised by a dragon. He offers the townsfolk to kill the dragon for them, but to his surprise, the people demand that he mind his own business and leave them alone, for they’re quite happy with the arrangements they have with their dragon, in fact, they say, the only way to protect yourself from a dragon is to have one yourself. Nevertheless, Lancelot engages in a battle with the dragon and eventually kills him at a great cost to himself. However, a year passes, and the town has a new dragon on the throne, calling himself “President of the free people”, and nothing at all has changed.
Written in a time of great hardship, not only due to the Second World War, but also the terrifying reality of Soviet oppression, this play is surprisingly full of love towards humanity. The story poses tough questions, confronts the worst qualities of people, yet it ends with hope that eventually all dragons inside men will be slain.